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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 16 Jun 2014

Director Richard Linklater approached this decade-spanning project with a novelist's ambition and patient determination -- it's unique in its rhythms…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 16 Jun 2014

Director Richard Linklater approached this decade-spanning project with a novelist's ambition and patient determination -- it's unique in its rhythms…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 14 Mar 2014

More than any other element, Eva Green's performance singlehandedly elevates the film from the doldrums of its hermetic conception and execution…

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Review of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 05 Dec 2013

Maybe the first Coen Bros. film that seems to settle into sampler territory. But it sure sticks with you…

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Review of You're Next (2013)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 10 Sep 2013

You're Next is pretty satisfying as a semi-horror film, sparring gamely with genre conventions rather than embracing or spoofing them outright…

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Review of Inserts (1975)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 08 Sep 2013

A self-reflexive text (and dark satire) on the movie industry's depiction of sex on screen in the early years of the MPAA ratings system…

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Review of Exotica (1994)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 02 Aug 2012

One of the most despairing movies, and yet there is in the precision of its craft and the depth of its empathy something fundamentally uplifting…

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Review of The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 02 Aug 2012

In its unsparing depiction of the loneliness and despair that afflicts the tragedy-wracked town of Sam Dent, The Sweet Hereafter is one of…

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Review of Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 29 Mar 2012

Its even-handed treatment of imperfect characters compares quite favorably with mainstream Hollywood stuff like Easy A…

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Review of Annie Hall (1977)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 11 Mar 2012

Annie Hall expanded Woody Allen's canvas to incorporate real wisdom alongside the punchlines…

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Review of Haywire (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 23 Jan 2012

Soderbergh's approach is a little too stripped-down - when you're making a conventional genre movie, the absence of conventional genre…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 10 Jan 2012

Scenes built on line after line of historically accurate but awkward, overly mannered dialogue distract and eventually grate…

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Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 10 Jan 2012

You get the sense Blomkvist and Salander might march with Occupy Sweden protesters; in its way The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is another…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 10 Jan 2012

The Artist plays less like an original take on the early sound era than as fan fiction set in the world of Singin' in the Rain…

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Review of Pina (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 10 Jan 2012

It's not an overview of Bausch's career or a statement on her art, but a celebration of her work and the dancers who bring it to life…

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Review of The Dead (2010)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 06 Oct 2011

You get used to the sight of the slow-moving undead swaying against the film's natural landscapes like half-imagined phantoms, and somehow…

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Review of X-Men: First Class (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 07 Jun 2011

I'm generally sick of remakes and relaunches and reboots, but this revamped X-Men origin story is kind of fun…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 31 May 2011

Terrence Malick is hardly the first filmmaker to show us characters who cry out at the silence of God, but he is perhaps the most…

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Review of Hall Pass (2011)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 25 Feb 2011

Sporadically funny, but it wastes a lot of time on dreary clichés…

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Review of Repo Chick (2009)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 19 Jan 2011

It shouldn't even be watchable, but writer-director Alex Cox manages to keep the cheese factor low…

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